The Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture and the US Energy Department have discussed co-signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) draft, in the field of developing desalination (saline water conversion) techniques. The goal set is aiming at consolidating bilateral technical and technological cooperation prospects. A US senior official, Victoria Coates, Adviser to the US Secretary of Energy paid a visit, in this regard, to the Desalination Technologies Research Institute, in Jubail, accompanied by the Director General of the institute Dr. Ahmed Al-Amoudi.